Speaker Profile
JD, Senior Vice President of External Affairs, Tempus
Biography
Lauren Silvis is Senior Vice President of External Affairs at Tempus, overseeing regulatory, policy, government affairs and strategic communications. She has held a number of senior career public health roles, including Senior Advisor at the Department of Health and Human Services, Chief of Staff of the Food and Drug Administration and Deputy Center Director for Policy in FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health. She is a member of the National Institutes of Health Council of Councils. During her time in government, she advanced policies to promote innovation in precision medicine, real world evidence, clinical trials and digital health. Lauren serves as Board Vice Chair for the Personalized Medicine Coalition and was a founding member of the Real-World Evidence Alliance. Earlier in her career, she was a partner at the international law firm Sidley Austin LLP. Lauren graduated from Duke University and earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Ed Kim, City of Hope
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute / FinnGen
• Gordon Sanghera, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
The Data Factory: Integrating Millions of Genomes for Variant Interpretation
• Chair: Stephen Montgomery, Stanford University
• Carlos Bustamante, University of Oklahoma
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute
• Manuel Rivas, Stanford University
• Mark McCarthy, Genentech
• Nilah Ioannidis, UC Berkeley / UCSC
Keynote: Biobanks and the Road Ahead in Human Genetics
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute
Beyond the Read: Long-Read Sequencing in Clinical Variant Pipeline
• Chair: Gordon Sanghera, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
• Hanlee Ji, Stanford
• Barrett Bready, Nabsys
DNA to Drug, Label & Coverage
• Chair: Razelle Kurzrock, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Edward Kim, City of Hope
• Slavé Petrovski, AstraZeneca
• Wei Zhou, Broad Institute
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Scott Gottlieb, New Enterprise Associates
Fireside Chat
• Lauren Silvis, Tempus
• Scott Gottlieb, New Enterprise Associates
25+ Years of the Human Genome: From Bench to Bedside to Beyond
• Chair: Ralph Snyderman, Duke University
• Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter Institute
• Brook Byers, KPCB
• Lee Hood, Phenome Health
AI & Evolution for Predicting Human Disease Genes
• Chair: Yuval Tabach, Hebrew University
• Nilah Ioannidis, UC Berkeley / UCSC
• Saša Jenko, European Commission
